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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => "My $a[Tor] teeshirt arrived!",
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2017/01/03.jpg" alt="A Tor teeshirt, a Tor logo sticker, and Tor webcam-covering stickers" class="framed-centred-image" width="817" height="480"/>
<section id="advertisements">
	<h2>Unsponsored advertisements</h2>
	<p>
		My $a[Tor] project teeshirt arrived today!
		Unfortunately, I accidentally told them to send me the wrong size, so it&apos;s a bit snug, but I need to lose weight anyway.
		Once I&apos;ve moved out and am in a better position to do that, maybe I&apos;ll make it fit better.
		The shirt also came with a $a[Tor] logo sticker and some $a[Tor] webcam-blocking stickers.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="general">
	<h2>General news</h2>
	<p>
		I hand washed my work uniforms, but otherwise, spent most of the day studying.
		I also removed the language-selection page from the root of this website, as it&apos;s been over a year and I still haven&apos;t had time to finish learning Esperanto and translate the website.
		Maybe one day I&apos;ll find the time to do that, but life is too unstable for that right now.
	</p>
	<p>
		My <a href="/a/canary.txt">canary</a> still sings the tune of freedom and transparency.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="university">
	<h2>University life</h2>
	<p>
		I wrote up the last of my discussion posts for the week, which are also the last of the term:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I think that we need to require that customers provide proof of purchase in the form of a receipt, personally.
			There&apos;s just one small problem.
			I personally give a receipt to every customer that I serve, but I&apos;m the odd person out.
			No one else in our store does this.
			Instead, our other employees only provide a receipt when asked for one, so if a problem occurs, we can&apos;t ask for a receipt because it&apos;s <strong>*our*</strong> fault that they don&apos;t have one to provide.
		</p>
		<p>
			Assuming that we don&apos;t make an effort to make sure that our register workers are handing out the receipts as they should, I think that we should keep our customer service culture the same.
			It&apos;s the only feasible way to make sure that when a problem really is our fault, it gets taken care of.
			When we get scammed, it&apos;s unavoidable damage that we have to deal with just because we aren&apos;t trained to give the customers the proof of purchase that they&apos;d need for a better system to work.
		</p>
		<p>
			It&apos;s worth noting that when we think that we&apos;re dealing with a scammer, we make them bring us back the pizza box, which isn&apos;t something that we usually ask for.
			However, it&apos;s really easy to get ahold of a box out of someone&apos;s trash, including our own.
			It&apos;s not much of a barrier, and once the scammer has the box, they cam claim that just about any sort of pizza was in it.
			With a specific and dated receipt, there&apos;d be a limit to how old of receipts we&apos;d take, receipts are harder to get if you didn&apos;t actually buy the pizza, and a very specific pizza is listed on the receipt.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I see why employees would think that it was social hour.
			Well, that&apos;s not quite the right way to put it.
			I don&apos;t understand, but at the same time, employees at my workplace do it too.
			It&apos;s particularly frustrating when they want to come talk to me while I&apos;m trying to be productive, but then I need to leave the room to continue my work.
			They can see that I&apos;m trying to leave, but they just continue their story without following me out, so I have to stand at the doorway.
			Most of the time, they&apos;re not even working while they talk, while I am.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			That&apos;s awesome that all of your new coworkers were welcoming and offered to help you if you need it! That sounds like the kind of culture that attempts to prevent employee turnover.
			If employees feel like they belong and feel like they don&apos;t have to be overwhelmed, they have more reason to stay.
			It&apos;d be nice if more companies had that kind of culture.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Both of my family&apos;s washing machines are leaking, so we can&apos;t use them.
			I&apos;ve been having to hand-wash my laundry for months.
			I can certainly appreciate a company that offers on-site laundry machines!
			I don&apos;t think that I could work there though, seeing as how creepy Facebook is with their user&apos;s data.
			What kind of conflicts do you think arise at Facebook headquarters?
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
END
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